Monthly Archives: June 2004

RSS Reader gets funded

BuzzMachine… by Jeff Jarvis: “: Brad Feld, blogger and VC at Mobius, has just led an investment in RSS reader Newsgator. I met Brad a few weeks ago and we talked about all the good things happening in this space.

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Harvard man loses 3,000 weblogs (Dave Winer)

Harvard man loses 3,000 weblogs | The Register“It’s not the first time Winer has earned a ticking off from webloggers. One of Harvard’s strangest-ever appointments, Winer sent a spam to hundreds of authors inviting them to a $500 gabfest last

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Susan Mernit’s Blog: Will pay for performance ads take over web advertising?

Susan Mernit’s Blog: Navigating the Info Jungle Susan Mernit comments on Chris Schroeder’s perspective on pay-for-performance advertising. Susan, perhaps I’m misreading your perspective, but you seem to be mixing P4P vs. CPM with text vs. banners/animation/etc. P4P has nothing to

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It’s been ~20 years since my first BBS experience

People say Gen Y is the first generation to grow up online… but they’re wrong. I knew a lot of kids my age who were into BBSs, Usenet, Fidonet, etc way back when. I wonder if anyone’s done a study

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TiVo-like camcorder documents your life | CNET News.com

TiVo-like camcorder documents your life | CNET News.com Deeje and I brainstormed this out (and several related business models) back in ’99 or so. Now it just needs to be WiFi (or even Bluetooth) enabled (see this post for why).

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Maxtor, Linksys to debut wireless external hard drive | CNET News.com

Maxtor, Linksys to debut wireless external hard drive | CNET News.com (Been forever since I blogged — eventually I’ll “catch up” — but this is truly worthy…) To some, this may be a “logical extension” of similar high end solutions,

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